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the web of life in southern Africa

Genus: Ifloga

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Eudicotyledons > Core Eudicots > Asterids > Euasterid II > Family: Asteraceae > Tribe: Gnaphalieae

The six species are found from Africa to the Middle East; also Canary Islands. There are four species native to southern Africa.  

Species native to southern Africa

List from Plants of southern Africa - an online checklist (SANBI).

Ifloga anomala

 

Ifloga glomerata 

Bekvol [Afrikaans]

See Karoo wildflowers by David Shearing & Katryn van Heerden p. 164.

Ifloga molluginoides

 

Ifloga thellungiana

 

Publications

  • Hilliard, O.M. 1981. A revision of Ifloga in southern Africa, with comments on the northern hemisphere species. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 82: 293-312.